Business Controller to BA Markets

Company Description
Business Area (BA) Markets maximizes the value of Vattenfall’s portfolio by optimizing and dispatching, hedging and sourcing for Vattenfall's assets and sales positions. We offer power purchase agreements to operators of wind or solar parks, optimize 3rd party batteries and enter into origination deals within the B2B segment. We serve as Vattenfall’s single market access to energy commodity markets trading in electricity, emissions, fuels, freight, and renewable certificates. We are responsible for generating profits by taking positions within defined risk mandates and limits. We are active across Europe with more than 450 professionals working from Sweden, Germany, The Netherlands, and The UK.


Job Description
Vattenfall is a European energy company with approximately 20 000 employees. For more than 100 years we have electrified industries, supplied energy to people’s homes and modernized our way of living through innovation and cooperation. We now want to make fossil-free living possible within one generation. To be able to reach this ambitious goal we are looking for talented individuals who, in addition to their passion for their own role, also have strong team spirit and want to contribute to supporting a meaningful corporate mission.
Want to help shaping a fossil free future within one generation? Good! Vattenfall is now looking for a:
Business Controller to BA Markets
Controlling within Business Area Markets have the responsibility for business planning, target setting, performance monitoring and financial reporting. Our aim is to support and challenge business with objective financial insights, transparent and automated reporting to enable a commercially viable transition to a fossil free future.
We offer you to be a part of a multi-disciplinary team that is operating from Stockholm and Hamburg. You will within cross locational teams support the business units in BA Markets with financial reporting, planning, performance steering and follow up. At the moment we have high focus on further automation and implementation of leaner controlling processes.
Your main tasks and responsibilities will be:
Monthly financial reporting and forecasting
Participate in target setting and planning process as well as follow up of plans
Proactively develop and improve the business area from a business controller perspective with regards to data capture, analysis, processes, benchmarking, KPIs etc
Act as first contact for business for all finance related questions. Bridge to the accounting function.
Support the local management with various decision support information, analysis and reports
Participate in projects and development activities both with regards to controlling processes as well as business processes and performance.



Qualifications
We are looking for a person with a Bachelor in Economics, Business Administration, Civil Engineering or suchlike. Experience within controlling, risk management, business development, analysis or similar competence areas is needed. Experience from energy-, commodity markets or the bank sector will be beneficial. As we believe a controller team with a good mix of competences and experiences can perform better, we appreciate for this position applicants with experiences from working within or closely connected to business operations. You are a fast learner, looking for efficiency and like to drive change. You are a good communicator that enjoys working close to business and management with the ambition to support business performance.
You have further more strong analytical skills and advanced user competence from relevant IT tools, such as MS Office tools, Power BI, Cognos, Endur/RepDB and SAP. A proactive approach is essential as well as drive with a sense of urgency. You are a true team player. Experiences from financial analysis as well as from Vattenfall financial reporting systems and processes are valuable.
You are fluent in English, both orally and written, and are experienced in general management reporting. Good understanding I Swedish will be beneficial.
At Vattenfall, we are convinced that striving for diversity & inclusion helps building a more attractive, efficient, customer centric and profitable company. Therefore we welcome applications from all individuals regardless of age, religious belief, gender identity & expression, sexual identity, disability and ethnic background.
At Vattenfall we also offer staff benefits such as favorable occupational pension agreements, parental leave allowances, flexible working hours and more. Read more about our benefits here: https://careers.vattenfall.com/about-us/compensation-and-benefits/.


Additional Information
Location: Solna, with some travelling within Europe, mainly to Hamburg.
For more information about the position you are welcome to contact Director Markets Controlling Björn Johansson, +46 705396228. For more information about the recruitment process you are welcome to contact recruiter Peter Blixter +46 72 237 32 02.
Trade Union representatives in Sweden Sven-Gunnar Gremlin (Akademikarna), Jens Morell (Unionen) They can be reached via Vattenfall´s switchboard +46 8 739 50 00.
We welcome your application, including CV and cover letter via the link below, no later than 13th of November 2022. As we may conduct interviews on an ongoing basis, we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.
We look forward to receiving your application!
Since Vattenfall is part of the Swedish critical infrastructure many of our positions are security classed. If this position is security classed the final candidates can be subject to a security vetting process, according to the Swedish legislation.